ChefID Reviews
How ChefID rates
ChefID ratings are assigned by professional chefs against an absolute standard — not averaged from crowd reviews. The plate is primary; the room, service and honesty can lift or lower it, but never replace it.
Read the number differently
On Google or Yandex, ratings bunch at the top — anything under 4.7 looks like a warning — so the scale barely tells you anything. ChefID scores against an absolute standard and uses the whole scale on purpose. A 4 is an excellent restaurant; a 3 is a good one, genuinely worth your table; a 5 is rare and earned. The distance between a 4 and a 5 is the distance between excellent and world-class — not between “fine” and “good.”
The dimensions
Seven dimensions trade off in a weighted average on a 10-point scale, then halve to a 5-star rating. What is on the plate, and the mind behind it, control half the score.
| Dimension | Weight |
|---|---|
| Plategate | 35% |
| Creativity | 15% |
| Ambiance | 15% |
| Service | 15% |
| Beverage program | 10% |
| Price integritygate | 5% |
| Consistency | 5% |
Hygiene, Presentation are observational — scored and shown, but never part of the weighted average. Hygiene can only lower the rating through its gate; presentation is informational.
The gates
Some failures do not average — they veto. A gate caps the final star rating no matter how high the weighted average, so the number can never contradict the review.
plate gate
| Plate | Star cap |
|---|---|
| ≤ 4 | 2.5★ |
| ≤ 3 | 2.0★ |
| ≤ 2 | 1.5★ |
| 5–10 | no cap |
integrity gate
| Price integrity | Star cap |
|---|---|
| ≤ 3 | 2.5★ |
| 4–10 | no cap |
hygiene gate
| Hygiene | Star cap |
|---|---|
| ≤ 8 | 4.0★ |
| ≤ 6 | 3.0★ |
| ≤ 4 | 1.5★ |
| 9–10 | no cap |
When more than one gate applies, the lowest cap wins. Any rating of 4.5★ or higher, and any gated score, is confirmed in panel discussion before publication.